Disclosure and the Politics of Belief: The Mainstreaming of Alien Conspiracy
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Alien conspiracy theories have moved into the mainstream, turning disclosure into a political demand rooted in decades of distrust of authority since the JFK era, shaped by figures like Tim Blake Nelson, Vera Farmiga, and Steven Spielberg, and critics warn that turning magical thinking about extraterrestrials into credible science risks eroding realism and elevating belief to power.
